| Description | (Directed to William Matthews’, merchant, Green Lettice Lane. Possibly incomplete, as the letter begins abruptly, without date or formal address.)
[We have lately had several little orders for Steel Chains, Sword Hilts, Hat Loops, &c. The Steel Chain trade is reviving. We paid in 1779 to Peck Creed &c., as much as £360 for Steel Work and as I think we could do much more this year with a proper person to manage it, I have agreed with Elias Creed to undertake it. He is to come into the Manufactory with his 13 men. Mr. Eginton has had two or three meetings with Mr. [Henry] Clay respecting a partnership in the Buckle trade, but nothing is settled: Mr. Eginton seems strongly inclined to be reinstated. The Lease of Holford Mill has 72 years to run.] |